clown behavior

New to reefing fish help Hello, I'm not sure if you can possibly help but I recently got a tank all setup. I got it cycled with the Tim's fishless method which took me around 20 days. I finally was able to get fish this past Saturday I got 2 snowflake clowns and they've been great until...

I just purchased these two clownfish but I noticed on one of them a little discoloration I’m new to the hobby and I’m not sure if it’s discoloration or the color of the clownfish it seems only one fish has it. Does it look like anything to you guys?

today my male clownfish took an interest in nuzzling the skimmer, normally they sleep against the back wall but both the male and female pair keep twitching on it. are they trying to host it? i’ve never seen him twitch besides when he is submitting to the female.

Just recently got my clownfish pair from a fish store last week. Water levels are within the acceptable levels for clownfish, they like to swim up the glass and to the top, or just float in the corner but don’t seem to sleep at night. One of them dart’s pretty fast in random motions from each...

Hi all! My clownfish Wally has been acting up weird lately. He suddenly lays down on the sand in a corner of the tank and kinda rests there for a little bit and then he just starts swimming again. He doesn't seem to be in distress. His skin and body look fine as well. He does this randomly...

Here’s the scenario. I have an existing 30 gallon tank which is home to two clowns. I’m in the middle of cycling my new 72 gallon tank which will house all my live stock from the 30. I’d like to add more clowns to to 72 in addition to the two that will be moving from my 30. Is this possible? If...

Hello, I've recently posted about an ammonia "issue" I'm facing. Long story short, Nh3 is give or take 0.04. Tank is (was) cycled. Nitrates - 0~5 Nitrites -0. PH 8.4, salinity 1.023, temp 24°C. Tank is 50 Gallons, about 2/ 2 1/2 months old. FOWLR tank, 40lbs rock. Currently have 2 clowns, one...

Hello all! We brought our 2 clown fish home yesterday. I have tested my water and everything is okay. The temp is between 78 and 79.5F. One of them is swimming at the top today like if she was trying to breathe. She does not seem to be gasping and when she actually goes to the bottom briefly she...

Here’s mine making my Plating Monti as its bed.

Added two clownfish to our 20 gallon long tank. Only other inhabitant at this time is a small long tentacle anemone and a new toadstool coral. After the first night the smaller clownfish has been resting on rock and sand various times at night and day. But swims up when I approach. Originally...

So I have two clowns that I got about a month and a half ago... An Ocellaris (Nemo) and a Wyoming White (Steve). And before you ask, they're just roommates. The past few nights ol Steve (the bigger of the two) has been dancing around this zoa frag. Nemo is getting close, but not too close.. he...

Hello! I'd love any insight folks might have for a new hobbyist with his first fish. My clownfish started having stringy tape-like poop last week. It sticks to his body, is thicker and flat like a piece of white tape. At first his behavior hadn't changed much, but now he is swimming mostly...

I have a bta and the clown has started hosting. the nem was double the size it is now. Is the clown to aggressive for it? I watched the clown today and he was really going at the nem I attached a video.

Hi, When i started the tank i had 2 blackstorms, my male was super submissive like only hang in one corner while the female just outside of the corner. When i was on a trip, my female found one little crack on my lid, and jumped out. Sadly. After a little while, i bought an orange storm, just a...

Hi. I am new to the hobby of reef keeping and reef2reef community. I have recently setup a 30L aquarium. It is a Camry Q3-380. As I knew nothing about reefs or marine aquariums, I did my research, spoke to some people in the hobby and read a few articles. I chose the dead shrimp cycle, with...

Hi all, this is my first fish tank. I have 2 small clowns very small. They have settled in very well and got through the cycle stage fine eating fine and looking healthy, although one is being very aggressive at the moment and I watched it take a big nip out of the ones anal fin the other day...

Hey everyone, my clownfish started acting super weird right after I added in my new wrasse and hawkfish. They had been fine in the tank for about a month and a half now, but now they’re like slapping the corners of the tank and the sand with their tails and roaming around a lot. They don’t have...

I got a black clownfish yesterday, he was swimming around the tank accepted food and seemed fine. today I’ve noticed, he’s not as active and didn’t got mad for the food like he did yesterday. He also is just swimming in the bottom corner and not moving from it. is he just shy maybe and getting...

Hello again all, just trying to figure out what’s going on with my female clown fish. My pair has been in this tank for about 5 months now and they’ve never hosted anything. The male and female seemed to be a pair because they always stuck around each other throughout the day and into the...

So I recently posted to figure out what one of my clowns is the female clown and the one that seemed like the female is definitely the male because he just started getting chased around and nipped at by the female why did this just happen so suddenly also now he is at the surface of the water...

I am about 2 weeks-3weeks in having fish in the tank. got two clownfish the female is a frostbite bullethole and the male is a davinci. When i got the davinci he was missing a fin on his belly and had a red cut on the left side of his lower lip. over the past two weeks all that had healed up by...

Hello, Got a new Anemone today and place it directly on the spot where my Clowns have been sleeping for ~2 years. Hoping they will decided to relax and enjoy in the Anemone. Should I be worried about this behavior?

Hello all, Yesterday I got this beatiful pair of clown fish, and I put them in my fresh (cycled) tank. Note that they were swimming perfectly fine in the aquarium shop and plastic bag on the way home and during the acclamation process. But, after I put them in the tank and checked up on them...

Hi all, I’ve had any clown for about 6 months, and just 2 days ago she switched her hangout spot from the upper corner near the power head to under a rock arch. Is this normal behavior or am I just being paranoid? She still eats well and sometimes explores the tank. #reefsquad

Hi .... I've added (2) young clownfish into my tank. Everything was well for the 1st couple of days and then I noticed tears in one of the clown's tail fins and fading to white spots on the tail fin. Each day it looks like the white spots are getting more prominent and chucks of the tail are...